What do you eat for dinner when it feels like hell outside?
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jonsblond (
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July 26th, 2023
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Many of us are experiencing very hot temperatures. I’m curious what you eat for dinner when it’s this hot. We try to avoid using the oven but I’m getting tired of tuna salad and need some ideas.
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You can do a greek salad.
I just had a pint of blueberries, and two bananas, some milk and water. Also a slice of cake for my 46th birthday on Friday. I also had some lasagna.
I have some broccoli and carrots and mini tomatoes with veggie dip for later
Tuna melt – which you do have to run under the broiler or vanilla yogurt and blueberries or other fruit and walnuts
Grinder / Hero / Subs – - cold cut sandwiches.
Ice cream – supper of champions!
I’ve been eating ice cream at work for lunch! :D
After a hot 10-hour day at work, about once per month I take a folding chair out to the shady lawn, drink a couple of beers, and bake a pizza in the Weber kettle grill.
I’ve been making wrap sandwiches for work lately:
Tortilla
Shredded cabbage or broccoli slaw
Sliced pepper (banana pepper, sweet pepper, whatever)
Sliced mushrooms
Cheese (whatever you have, I like feta or sharp cheddar)
Dijon (or whatever) mustard
Optional meat – whatever I have in the fridge, or scrambled eggs, or hard-boiled eggs
2 string cheese sticks, medium tomato, 2 hard-boiled eggs, some cottage cheese and cold water. Later for a snack, peanut butter on saltines with milk.
Lemonade and wraps cooked at a good wrap restaurant – chicken, spices, vegetables, etc.
Grills are better than ovens in the Summer if you’re trying to avoid heating the house up.
Our menu hadn’t changed much, though I’m doing more salads and fresh fruit. I made cacio e pepe a couple of weeks back for the first time after watching a YouTube video. I liked it but my wife hated it. She’s hard to please.
A salad with a glass of cold clear water.
Salad w cheese, homegrown cucumbers and cherry tomatoes. Side of cottage cheese.
What I’ve been eating the past few weeks is zucchini (summer squash is what some may call it), boiled with corn or potatoes or spinach ravioli or any combo of the above. I love squash in the summer, just boiled with some salt and maybe a pat of butter, and the other stuff, (potatoes or corn or ravioli which I just happen to have in the freezer, from Costco), gives a good mix of starch and texture and variety. I also have some string beans from a farm lady so I may throw some of those in one of these nights.
I’m into roughage, I’m into veggies, I’m not so into meat. I don’t avoid meat, I just don’t think that every meal needs to have meat and I maybe only eat meat once or twice a week.
I’ve been eating Jersey corn on the cob sometimes for my supper followed by – ice cream!
I either do things like tuna, or salad, or if I want someone cooked I sometimes do Uber Eats because I just can’t get into cooking in the summer. I’m not really even into using my crock pot in the summer, and that’s my favorite way to cook meals. It’s just something about the heat and humidity that makes me want to eat less and to have to prepare food less.
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